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Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.<\/em> \u201cYou are the salt of the earth\u201d (Matthew 5:13). These familiar words of Jesus suggest that our life is to accomplish the two benefits of salt: seasoning (attractiveness) and preservation. Paul applied the salt metaphor to speech when it came to relating to nonbelievers: Our speech should be graceful (kind, compassionate, encouraging, understanding)\u2014seasoned with salt.<\/p>\n How might the two uses of salt\u2014seasoning and preservation\u2014apply to our speech when relating to those who might be opposed to our beliefs or actions? Seasoning suggests speech that adds an attractive flavor to the conversation or dialogue. And preservation suggests doing whatever we can, not just to preserve a relationship but to strengthen it. As Paul wrote in Romans 12:18, \u201cIf it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.\u201d \u201cAll men\u201d includes everyone we encounter\u2014even those who may have done us wrong. Let us speak only \u201cwhat is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers\u201d (Ephesians 4:29).<\/p>\n Look for an opportunity to encourage someone today with gracious words that are \u201cflavorful\u201d and that strengthen the relationship.<\/p>\n It is bad to think ill, but it is worse to speak it. (Henry)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:6 \u201cYou are the salt of the earth\u201d (Matthew 5:13). These familiar words of Jesus suggest that our life is to accomplish the two benefits of salt: seasoning (attractiveness) and preservation. Paul … Continue reading “42.z. Turning Point devotional (Dr. Jeremiah)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164347,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164346\/revisions\/164347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nColossians 4:6<\/strong><\/p>\n